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class 10, tues. nov 26

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  • you have to skinny to be pretty as viewed by society

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  • disgust of seeing people who more plump

  • fat people are seen as unhealthy

  • promoting obesity

  • “they are letting anyone on the covers”

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  • disgusted about appearance

  • none of the examples are fat

  • women are always asked about their appearance

  • different interview questions between men and women

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  • magazines are obsessed with women’s body

    • circling women’s stomach “pregnant”

  • always uses unflattering images of them

  • always attacking either too fat or too skinny

  • promoting how to lose weight, or how to look completely different → capitalism

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  • the difference between men’s magazines and women’s

    • men’s would talk about their achievements

    • women’s would talk about their body, beauty

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  • nothing wrong with wanting to look pretty

  • for women, people think that they want to look for men and not for themselves

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  • ageism

  • pressured to use products or surgeries to look younger

  • youth is seen as pretty

  • these advertisements doesn’t showcase that these female celebrities already had surgeries, they also have nutritionists and a whole glam team

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  • dehumanizing

  • seen as animals, savage

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  • easy to believe that body scrub can make you whiter

  • the “before and after”

  • capitalism

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  • back then advertisements promote nuclear family, women stay at home to cook and clean and take of the family

  • products promote what women “naturally want”, not true as these are products are just sold to women

  • reinforces the idea that you have to chores for men

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  • accepting flirting because it’s normalized to experience when you’re working

  • appearance plays an important part, for their physical presentation

  • you have to care for their appearance when they are cooking or cleaning

  • this is for the male attention

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  • “ask a man” → what men want women to look, that we should ask what they would like

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  • first poster is supposed to promote a car however there is no car in the poster

  • body shaming

  • hyper-sexualization

  • the product isn’t really getting promoted, the attention goes towards the women

  • “give a woman a ring, they will open their legs”

  • video game controller → meaning could be like controlling women

  • giving women money in exchange for sex